Day 14: Basic Compositing / Project Time
Learning Goals
Students will be able to:
Make basic color adjustments to a finished render in Adobe After Effects
Superimpose a render with an alpha channel over footage in Adobe After Effects
Take 3D camera data out of C4D into After Effects using the C4D to AE Exchange Plugins
Agenda
Note: The exact timing and topics covered may shift.
Final Project Review: 10:10am-10:30am
Homework Review: Rube Goldberg Machine
Q&A: Have any questions come up since last class?
Gravity / Time-Scale to make things fall faster
Caching solutions
How do you make an animated object collide w/ others?
Can you selectively have objects run into some, but not others?
How do you have a transparent object look solid until it's collided with?
Swap in a broken/unbroken object w/ a Display tag and the Visibility Setting
Adjust the Enable setting on your dynamics to start the simulation when you need it.
Basic Adjustments in AE: 10:30am-10:50am
Watch: The Third & The Seventh
Watch: Exeter Shot -- Making Of
Rendering with an Alpha in C4D
Curves Adjustment
Vignette
Advanced C4D to AE Procedure: 10:50am-11:15am
Install the C4D Import After Effects Plugin
Exercise: Map Footage onto a Plane in AE
Course Blogs Checklist / Q&A: 11:15am-11:50am
Create a new post on your Course Blog Titled: Assignment List
Copy the checklist below into your post, and link to each assignment. If you did not complete the assignment, leave it blank.
Checklist
Day 01: Character Made from Primitives
Day 02: Verb Animation
Day 03: Theatrical Texturing Exercise
Day 04:
Upper Body Rig
Preset Model Import
Day 05:
Photographic Lighting Recreation
Thematically Appropriate Lighting
Day 06: 30 sec Single Object Film
Day 07: Architectural Interior/Exterior Modeling with Splines
Day 08: Texture a Model with Different Texture Projection Modes
Day 09: Exterior Architecture Shot
Day 10: 30 sec Procedural Animation
Day 11: Follow a Polygon Modeling Tutorial
Day 12: Animated Camera Mapped Image
Day 13: Rube Goldberg Machine
Course Evaluation 11:50am-11:58pm
Recommended Reading / Viewing
The Importance of Compositing by Nick Campbell
Video Copilot's After Effects Basic Training by Andrew Kramer
CINEMA 4D to After Effects Basic Parts One, Two, Three by Tim Clapham